There is still no word on when the Algarve’s intermunicipal road safety plan will be unveiled.
Announced in June 2016 in a bid to reduce the growing number of accidents and fatalities on local roads, the project followed the signing of a protocol between the Algarve municipalities association (AMAL) and the national road safety authority (ANSR).
But two years have passed and the plan (Plano Intermunicipal para a Segurança Rodoviária no Algarve) has yet to be drawn up.
Speaking to Correio da Manhã tabloid this week, Jorge Botelho, mayor of Tavira and president of AMAL, attributed the delay to the fact that each municipality has to identify its accident ‘blackspots’, which many have not yet done.
He also revealed that AMAL will be meeting with the road safety authority in September as new ‘blackspots’ have appeared since 2016 and have to be identified.
As CM points out, the number of people who have died on Algarve roads this year has reached 25, five more than the same period last year and 10 more than in 2016.
michael.bruxo@algarveresident.com
